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How many grams in a cup of cocoa powder?
About 85 g in a US cup (240 ml), 90 g in a metric cup (250 ml) and 72 g in a 200 ml cup.
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Cup size
Cocoa powder
1 cup = 85 g
- Tablespoons16
- Teaspoons48
- Millilitres237
- Grams85
Dry ingredients are spooned into the cup and levelled. Scooped straight from the bag, flour can weigh up to 20% more — for baking, a scale is the safest bet.
Good to know:
- Unsweetened cocoa powder is light: about 85 g a cup, or about 5 g a tablespoon.
- Natural and Dutch-process cocoa weigh the same but don't always swap: recipes with baking soda usually count on the acid in natural cocoa.
- Cocoa clumps — sift it, or whisk it with the sugar before the liquids go in.
Conversion tables (US cup · 240 ml):
Cups to grams
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ | 11 g |
| ¼ | 21 g |
| ⅓ | 28 g |
| ½ | 43 g |
| ⅔ | 57 g |
| ¾ | 64 g |
| 1 | 85 g |
| 1½ | 128 g |
| 2 | 170 g |
| 3 | 255 g |
Grams to cups
| Grams | Cups |
|---|---|
| 25 g | ⅓ |
| 50 g | 0.6 |
| 100 g | 1.2 |
| 150 g | 1¾ |
| 200 g | 2⅓ |
| 250 g | 2.9 |
| 300 g | 3½ |
| 500 g | 5.9 |
Spoons to grams
| Spoons | Grams |
|---|---|
| ½ tsp | 0.9 g |
| 1 tsp | 1.8 g |
| 2 tsp | 3.5 g |
| ½ tbsp | 2.7 g |
| 1 tbsp | 5.3 g |
| 2 tbsp | 11 g |
| 3 tbsp | 16 g |
| 4 tbsp | 21 g |
| 8 tbsp | 43 g |
Other ingredients (US cup · 240 ml):
Questions:
- How many grams is ½ cup of cocoa powder?
- About 43 g.
- How many grams in a tablespoon of cocoa?
- About 5 g; a teaspoon is under 2 g.
- Can I use cocoa instead of chocolate?
- Roughly: 3 tablespoons of cocoa plus 1 tablespoon of butter or oil replace 1 oz (28 g) of unsweetened chocolate.
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